{"id":609004,"date":"2009-12-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/Handling-Disputed-Borders-and-Names-in-Google-Earth-and-Maps-128966.shtml"},"modified":"2009-12-05T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T13:00:00","slug":"handling-disputed-borders-and-names-in-google-earth-and-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/609004","title":{"rendered":"Handling Disputed Borders and Names in Google Earth and Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mapping the world online poses a lot of different challenges not only from a technical perspective but also from a political one. Google has some of the best software engineers in the world so it’s safe to assume they can tackle any technical issue to overcome and, for the most part, so far they have. Some problems, though, are a little more tricky and don’t have anything to do with the actual product, but with trying to satisfy all the different views, customs and opinions of the people around the world. <\/p>\n

One problem that arose time and time again when creating Google Maps was how to handle regions or geographical features on which different countries had different and a lot of times conflicting views. One common issue is with water bodies that regularly have different names in the countries bordering them or which they cross. Google exemplifies with the “Yellow Sea” as it’s known in the English-speaking world. However, in China, it is known as “Huáng H\u01cei” and in Korea it is known as the “West Sea” or “S\u014f Hae” in Korean.<\/p>\n

Google handles this by showing both labels in the English or other international versions of Google Earth and Maps. In Earth, there is also a text box explaining the existence of the two names. However, the local ve… (read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mapping the world online poses a lot of different challenges not only from a technical perspective but also from a political one. Google has some of the best software engineers in the world so it’s safe to assume they can tackle any technical issue to overcome and, for the most part, so far they have. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2yqE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}